Sharpdevelop is a free programming that uses Basic language similar to VB.NET. This tutorial will show you how to connect to Microsoft Access from SharpDevelop. Here is my screenshot when the program is executed, showing the connection status. This tutorial also applied to Vistual Basic.NET.
Here is my code:
Sub BtnshowtableClick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim koneksi As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection()
koneksi.ConnectionString="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=d:\\drilling_fe.mdb" ‘change the directory match with your access database
koneksi.Open ‘open the connection
MsgBox ("Status Koneksi" & " :" & koneksi.State.ToString, MsgBoxStyle.Information,"Status") ‘connection status will be displayed here
koneksi.Close ‘ close the connection
End Sub